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Calm down, America. Attacks won't break Britain
News, Peter Apps, Published on 08/06/2017
» When I rolled my wheelchair out of my apartment block on Sunday morning -- mere hours after three attackers killed seven a few hundred yards away in London Bridge and Borough Market -- the most striking thing was the sense of calm.
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From Trump to Europe crises, what to watch in 2018
News, Peter Apps, Published on 29/12/2017
» Professional forecasters like to say that making predictions is difficult, particularly about the future. As we reach the end of 2017, however, here are some of the key themes -- and questions -- that look set to shape global events next year.
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Trump's words seen raising risk of war in Europe
News, Peter Apps, Published on 21/02/2024
» As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a new munitions factory early last week, he warned that Europe must move to mass-producing weapons "because the painful reality is that we do not live in times of peace".
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From Europe to the Pacific, world weighs risk of war
News, Peter Apps, Published on 31/01/2024
» As last week's North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) defence chiefs' meeting drew to a close, Nato Military Committee Chairman Adm Robert Bauer outlined the steps he believed households within the alliance should already be taking in the event of war.
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Global ammunition race may decide Ukraine war
News, Peter Apps, Published on 08/05/2023
» At the US Army Ammunition Plant in President Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, production lines are running day and night through the working week to deliver artillery shells.
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The unsettling behaviour of 'The Donald' at summits
News, Peter Apps, Published on 18/07/2018
» In the end, Donald Trump's post-summit press conference with Vladimir Putin produced fewer surprises than many feared. In contrast to the US president's meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, there was no announcement to blindside regional allies such as a suspension of military exercises. Like the first part of Mr Trump's trip to Europe, however, the outcome of the Helsinki meeting will outrage his critics, play well with his domestic political base and unsettle European nations. Indeed, that may well have been its purpose.
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Donald Trump gears up for the great Davos face-off
News, Peter Apps, Published on 25/01/2018
» Since its foundation in 1971, the World Economic Forum in Davos has been a byword for the growing consensus around an increasingly globalised world. Now, President Donald Trump is on his way to tell those who consider themselves the global elite that they have been wrong on just about everything.
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The West's military renaissance
News, Peter Apps, Published on 24/07/2017
» This month's G20 meeting in Hamburg showed Western countries still struggling for a strategy to stop suspected Russian meddling in their politics and hacking their elections. Behind the scenes, however, the US and European militaries have been more effective in adapting to the actions of President Vladimir Putin and Moscow's aggressive new military doctrine.
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In standing up to Trump, Europe gets its mojo back
News, Peter Apps, Published on 01/06/2017
» If US President Donald Trump wanted to make an impression with his first visit to Europe last week, he unquestionably succeeded.
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Yes, 2016 was bad. But next year risks being far worse
News, Peter Apps, Published on 23/12/2016
» The killing of Russia's ambassador to Turkey on Monday evening might have prompted knee-jerk comparisons to the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but it almost certainly won't spark a World War I-type conflict. The lethal truck attack that killed 12 in Berlin a few hours later, however, could ratchet up the prospect of yet another political shock in Europe.
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